Service Desk Manager

16 hours ago


Cape Town, South Africa Nexio Full time

**ROLE PURPOSE**
The service desk manager is the leader of a critical IT service-management function that processes a large volume of incidents and service requests each day. The service desk manager is responsible for smooth operations, that SLAs are being fulfilled and service-desk clients are happy with the support they are receiving. He/She is actively involved in the day-to-day activities of his or her team, with a direct accountability for service desk performance. Common service operations activities for the service desk manager include:

- Mentoring
- Escalations
- Executive communications
- Workload balancing
- Operational performance monitoring
- Continuous improvement
- SLA compliance
- Managing shift hand-offs

**ROLE REQUIREMENT**
- The service desk manager is the champion for designing systems and services for supportability and operational performance. Insights and observations from service operations should be shared during service strategy and design
- Primarily involved in structuring and aligning the Service Desk and it’s sub-components to meet the companies service delivery strategy and objectives.
- Transition management between service desk shift’s of all outstanding critical items at hand-off.
- Review current major incidents, scheduled outages and business events for the day to assess any adjustments to staffing plans.
- Review shift staffing to understand who is working, their skills and how much capacity the service desk has for the day. The service desk manager may need to shift workloads among resources throughout the day.
- Address SLA areas of concern. Often SLA targets will include multiple shifts. The service desk manager will evaluate incidents and service requests approaching or exceeding their SLAs and may adjust staff
- Assign staff for in-flight work. Any incident/service requests in
- progress during a shift hand-off are assigned to a receiving agent and a transition is conducted from the agent leaving his or her
- Review operational metrics and note areas for attention. The service desk manager will review metrics and reports throughout each day to adjust staffing and workflows as needed to optimize service-desk performance.
- Follow up customer-satisfaction issues and user-feedback responses. The service desk manager is responsible for client satisfaction and will typically review any negative feedback or concerns clients have raised as a part of the post-ticket satisfaction survey.
- Mentor staff. The service desk manager is responsible for staff productivity as well as ensuring positive client perceptions. He or she will often mentor staff about customer-service skills as well as technical
- Monitor tickets and calls. Service desk managers will often monitor incoming service-desk tickets to understand broad trends and identify dependencies that individual agents can’t see when working on an individual
- Manage escalated issues. The service desk manager is the escalation point for any incidents, service requests or issues. During a typical shift, a service desk manager may spend as much as half of his or her time managing
- Prepare hand-off summary report. At the end of each shift, the service desk manager is responsible for preparing a summary of open issues and conducting a hand-off to the next
- Focus on staffing activities. In addition to managing operational activities, the service desk manager will typically spend 10-25% of his or her day on general staffing activities, such as hiring, training, budgeting, scheduling and conducting performance reviews.
- Service Desk Manager must ensure that customer satisfaction is met at all
- Nexio Service Desk operates 24 x7x365. A as a result the Service Desk Manager must ensure the availability and functionality of the Service Desk at all times to ensure that clients’ needs and demands are dealt with within the Service Level Agreement.
- Ensure ISO 20000 policies, procedures and documentation are kept up to date - attend ISO audits.

Additional Information:

- Individuals at this level should have fully developed knowledge of the business, marketplace, and clients.
- Must be recognized as an expert in own area within the
- Provide technical guidance and
- Able to build strong interpersonal relationships with peers, brand leaders, and other senior management throughout the
- Able to be a “big picture”
- Have excellent personality and team building
- Have excellent verbal and written communication
- Confident in producing and presenting
- Fully accountable for the Service Desk as an
- Have an in-depth understanding of the industry.

**TECHNICAL COMPETENCIES**
- Remedy Call Logging Tool
- Report/Dashboard Tool
- IT Systems
- System Management Software

**QUALIFICATIONS & EXPERIENCE**
- A+ Certified
- N+ Certified
- ITIL Foundation certified
- Matric (Grade 12)
- Degree/Diploma relevant to the ICT Industry
- Previous customer service experience strongly
- Proven experience as Senior Service Desk
- Seven to Ten yea



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